Supported Protocols and Wrappers
PHP comes with many built-in wrappers for various URL-style protocols for use with the filesystem functions such as fopen(), copy(), file_exists() and filesize(). In addition to these wrappers, it is possible to register custom wrappers using the stream_wrapper_register() function.
Note: The URL syntax used to describe a wrapper only supports the scheme://... syntax. The scheme:/ and scheme: syntaxes are not supported.
Table of Contents
- file:// - Accessing local filesystem
- http:// - Accessing HTTP(s) URLs
- ftp:// - Accessing FTP(s) URLs
- php:// - Accessing various I/O streams
- zlib:// - Compression Streams
- data:// - Data (RFC 2397)
- glob:// - Find pathnames matching pattern
- phar:// - PHP Archive
- ssh2:// - Secure Shell 2
- rar:// - RAR
- ogg:// - Audio streams
- expect:// - Process Interaction Streams